Resource Guide:
Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Mathematics
- Mathematicians
- Golden section
- Golden ratio
- Hyperspace
- Fibonacci numbers
- Fractals
- Fractals in Art
- Numbers, Prime
- Pascal’s triangle
- Probabilities
- Topology
- Mathematical recreations
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
- Abstract & Applied Mathematics
- Mathematics Magazine
- Mathematics Teacher
- School Science and Mathematics
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The Heart of Mathematics, 3rd Edition | Front Desk |
| Math Study Skills Workbook | Front Desk |
| The Mathematics of Encryption | QA 268 .C697 2013 |
| How to Fold It | QA 564 .O76 2011 |
| Flatland | QA 699 .A13 2009 |
| The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives | QA 273 .M63 2008 |
| The Golden Section | QA 466 .O57 2006 |
| Knot Theory | QA 612.2 .L58 1993 |
| Fractal Geometry | QA 614.86 .F35 1990 |
| Fascinating Fibonaccis | QA 241 .G23 1987 |
| Beyond Infinity | eBook |
| The Beauty of Fractals: Six Different Views | eBook |